252 examples of grovelled in sentences

Every limb was relaxed in terror, and I grovelled on my knees before him.

Afflicted at this want of success, Káús grovelled in the dust, and prayed fervently to the Almighty to give him the triumph.

" The King, appeased, no more with vengeance burned, The Tartar legions to their homes returned; The Persian warriors, gathering round the dead, Grovelled in dust, and tears of sorrow shed; Then back to loved Irán their steps the monarch led.

I had enough pride not to want him to see me crythough, if it could have made any difference, I would have grovelled at his feet and wet them with my tears.

Abjectly he grovelled: He regard the ineffable Madame Guilbert as a light woman!

He saw her not only as a beautiful and most compelling fascinator, before whom he had grovelled, but as a big-brained and big-souled friend.

"Did ever a man die the easier because he had grovelled at the knees of Huxley?

There is a foolish opinion which some hold, that they are the souls of men departed, good and more noble were deified, the baser grovelled on the ground, or in the lower parts, and were devils, the which with Tertullian, Porphyrius the philosopher, M. Tyrius, ser.

She could have flung herself down on the floor and grovelled, and torn her hairshe could have done anything mad, wicked, desperate, in the wild rage of this moment.

Oh, if he had been able, if he had dared, he would have cast himself at this maiden's feet, he would have kissed her knees, he would have grovelled on the ground and cried with tears: "Pardon!

Well, that night, owing to some form or other which had to be gone through, they did not take him out from among the other prisoners, and though he wept and screamed, and grovelled upon the ground, they left him there amongst the comrades whom he had betrayed.

The rest sank beneath the discouragements, and grovelled in vice and debasement.

The Prussian monarchy grovelled before Austria and Russia, and seemed to have forgotten its national duties.

No man grovelled on the dock with the convulsions of death; no man hearkened to the bitter, impotent words of the single wise man among them.

The eunuch flung himself at her feet, and squirmed and grovelled.

Men renowned in Europe for their eleganceand their follieshave grovelled at my feet, and I have treated them worse than I have treated you.

Leonora could have grovelled at Keller's feet, let him trample on hermake a carpet of her beauty.

The cruel lash fell again and again, raising great wheals on his pampered body: now he clutched Mr. Dunborough's arm only to be shaken off; now he grovelled on the floor; now he was plucked up again, now an ill-directed cut marked his cheek.

"Fourfivesixseveneight" "Palmyre!" gasped the negress, and grovelled on the ground.

I fought at the fishmonger's, battled at the butcher's and baker's, grovelled at the grocer's, and finally ended by committing a theft at the butterman's.

They grovelled on the ground from day to day, but they had created love, they had replaced divine riches by the poverty of belonging to each other.

So fickle is popular favor that when the crowd saw that nothing happened, they spurned the god loudly before whom they had grovelled in the dust till then.

But two steps with the skis flung her headlong upon the snow, and while she grovelled there, struggling vainly to rise, she heard the awful blows above her like pistol-shots through the stillness.

With the smallest encouragement he would have grovelled at Bertie's feet.

Nap was standing just beyond the outspreading boughs of the cedar, a straight relentless figure, with the arrogance of complete mastery in every line, while at his feet grovelled and whimpered the great half-breed, Tawny Hudson.

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